Commentary
Love at first sight it definitely wasn’t in the case of Dawn Greeley. Nor was it at second or third. She was an artist, you see, and I, well, I’m good at putting things in order. She saw the big picture, and I, the pesky details. She was larger than life, and I prefer near invisibility.
And so it went two years ago, as Dawn assumed the chairmanship of the Martha’s Vineyard Cultural Council, stepping up from vice-chairman, while I continued as secretary.
SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
While I appreciate restoration ecologist Dick Johnson’s forthright manner in stepping up to accept responsibility, I find that I am not at all reassured by the comments made by Sheriff’s Meadow board members in the Gazette May 23 edition in response to recent incidents of large-scale plant removal from two of their preserves.
What began last August, when Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton came here as the leading Democratic presidential candidate to raise money and woo Vineyard voters, has since deteriorated into an unseemly and tedious slugfest that does no credit to her party’s selection process. Indeed, her rejection by every one of the Island’s six towns, and the subsequent elevation of Sen.
Vis i tors Return
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of May, 1908:
Of all the quirks that define the Gazette — the seven-column broadsheet, black and white photography, house style that bows to no one — the skyline may be the most often overlooked. Prominent of placement and yet remarkably easy to pass over, it sails above the banner where most papers these days put reefers — those short blurbs, sometimes with a small image, that tease a story inside.
KATIE’S WORLD
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
A lot of Vineyard organizations have been hurt over the past decade or so by the clash between two types of leadership: the rigid, fear-based, fundamentalist thinking and the flexible, creative, servant leadership which regards its clients as individuals with individual needs.